EDUCATION
Antioch University Diploma, June 2020
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Master of Arts in Education
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Certificate in Sexuality Education
Cortiva Institute Seattle Diploma, April 2015
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750 Hour COMTA Accredited Clinic, Oct 2014-Mar 2015
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GPA: 3.6
University of Denver Bachelor of Arts, November 2010
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Major: Anthropology
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Minor: Psychology
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Overall GPA: 3.5
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GPA in Major: 3.8
PRIOR SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
March 31, 2020 Catalyst Counseling
Training for Catalyst Counseling that covered the intersection of autism, neurodiversity, sensory issues and human sexuality.
April 12, 2021 SexualiTea Podcast
Podcast that covered the intersection of autism, neurodiversity, and human sexuality.
October 9-10, 2021 PNW Sex Therapy Collective Autism and Sexuality
December 1, 2021 Whole Body Revolution Sensory Processing Disorder and Autism
December 7, 2021 ISEE Sex on the Spectrum: An Overview of Sexuality and Autism.
March 24-March 25 2022 Modern Path Modified 5 Part Class Series
March 29, 2022 Sex-Positive Los Angeles ‘Let’s Talk About Sex(Positivity)’ Topics covered: neurodivergence, socializing, and sexuality
July 13, 2022 AASECT Gender Diverse SIG Vestibular Systems Role in Development of Self
July 30, 2022 Oh Hi Collective Queer on the Spectrum: Autism and Sexuality
September 19, 2023 OHSU University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities Autism and Human Sexuality webinar
November 29, 2023 PLU's Human Sexuality class for MFT grad students Autism and Sexuality
November 20, 2024 PLU's Human Sexuality class for MFT grad students Autism and Sexuality
February 10, 2025 Community Autism Resources Autism and Sexuality Training
Healthy Teen Network
January-December 2024 Research Alliance Key Informant
Arc of King County (mix of speaking on panels and speaking at a conference)
(note: many of these speaking engagements were co-hosted by the Arc of King County and other organizations such as the Seattle Children’s Hospital, UW Autism Center, and Gender Diversity)
May 27, 2018 430-630 Gender Diversity Panel at Seattle Children’s Hospital ARC of King County (Rachel NemhauserParent to Parent Program Supervisor) and Gender Diversity (Vatsa (Sri) Sreedhara, Program Manager)
August 25, 2018 10am-2pm Local Preview of Bellevue College’s Autistics Present https://depts.washington.edu/rablab/2018/08/31/review-bellevue-colleges-autism-pre-conference/
November 2018 Panel on the intersection of disability and sexual violence during Abuse of Elders and Adults with Disabilities Annual Conference
November 2018 Intergroup Dialogue Panel for Autism 200 series
Autism 200 is a series of 90-minute classes for parents and caregivers of children with autism who wish to better understand autism spectrum disorder. Faculty from Seattle Children’s and the University of Washington and community providers teach the classes. Each class includes time for questions. The Intergroup Dialogue Panel for Autism 200 series discussed the intergroup process and how it can facilitate communication between autism advocates (autistic individuals engaged in advocacy work around autism) and allistic (non autistic) professionals and parents.
February 21, 2021 11-1230 Arc’s Autism Exchange Program
A group conversation with parents of Autistic children on zoom as a part of the Arc’s Autism Exchange program. Since the event is close to valentines day, the topic is going to be about the Autistic experience of love within families and romantic relationships.
November 21 to Present Arc of King County Board/DEI Committee
Tina Sellers (mix of speaking on panels, speaking to classes, and teaching a class)
June 23, 2017 11am – 12:30pm SAR trans and queer panel
November 9, 2017 2pm-3pm Advanced clinical sexology course (discuss neuro-diversity, queer experiences and other issues that you believe might present clinically to sex therapists and get mis-interpreted. What do therapists need to understand? What are the issues that might present themselves to a therapist? What myths might a therapist not be wise to? What should a therapist look for when a person is in a relationship or presenting in ways that might be unhealthy or hurtful to themselves or another?... that afternoon will be more focused on clinical treatment issues that might present in the kink, queer, neuro-diverse communities; and how to be of support.)
February 15, 2018 630pm-830pm Graduate level human sexuality course (panel of folks who experience their sexuality and/or gender in ways that are often misunderstood by the dominant cisgender-straight culture)
June 22, 2018 2pm-4pm SAR Polyamory and BDSM panel (BDSM 2-3 and Polyamory 3-4)
November 8, 2018 330pm-430pm Advanced Clinical Sexology Course (focuses more on clinical treatment - so in your lecture it is more on treating folks who are suffering with sensory processing issues while also being queer, etc. I usually like the therapist to be able to assess someone who might have learning/sensory neuro-processing challenges and how best to serve them. One of the types of cases to come up in the last couple of years is teens on the autism scale who are becoming sexually curious and parents who don’t know how to deal with this. Teens who might have aspects of their cognitive functioning age below their bodies age. If you are able to come back in November, I am wondering if you have thoughts on how best to deal with this with a kid? And with the parents – that you would be willing to bring into your lecture as well?)
February 21, 2019 615pm-815pm Human Sexuality class Topics discussed: Autism, Neurodiversity, and Human Sexuality
June 28, 2019 11am-4pm SAR Northwest Institute on Intimacy (NWIOI) Mia Fine/Tina Sellers Gender Diversity, BDSM, and Polyamory Panels
October 31, 2019 3:45pm – 5pm Advanced Clinical Sexology Course Tina Sellers (focus on the clinical issues that arise for people who are not neurotypical. It would be great if you could also cover some of the developmental life cycle issues affecting sexuality and gender identity, and how clinicians can be helpful to both the clients and the parents. As always, please throw in whatever else you think therapists need to know about working with this very diverse population. This is the class that focuses on clinical issues, and how to treat both effectively and with cultural humility.)
June 26, 2020 130pm-230pm BDSM and Kink Panel SAR
November 12, 2020 345pm-515pm Advanced Clinical Sexology Topics discussed: Autism, Neurodiversity, and Human Sexuality
April 23, 2021 9am-1pm Autism and Human Sexuality Class Topics discussed: Autism, Neurodiversity, and Human Sexuality
November 14, 2021 130pm-3pm Advanced Clinical Sexology Course Topic: Providing Culturally Sensitive Care to those who Experience Life at the Intersection of Gender Diversity and Neurodiversity
Class Series/Stand Alone Class
Saturday September 4, September 18, October 2, October 16, and October 30, 2021 11am-1pm PST
Monday September 13, September 20, September 27, October 4, October 11, 2021 8am-10am PST/11am – 1pm EST
Tuesday Sept 14 Sept 21 Oct 5 Oct 12 Oct 19 2021 2am-4pm PST
Monday Oct 25, Nov 1, Nov 8, Nov 15 2021 4pm-6pm PST
Monday January 24, February 7, February 14, February 21 2022 11am-130pm PST
Monday April 4, April 11, April 18, April 25, May 2 2022 4pm-6pm PST
Wednesday June 15, June 22, June 29, July 6, July 13, July 20 2022 3pm-5pm PST
Saturday July 2, July 9, August 6 2022 10am-1230pmPST
Friday October 28, November 4 2022 1130am-130pmPST
July 2023-February 2024
Consultation
September 4, 2020 11:00am-12:00pm PST
February 19, 2021 5:30pm-630pm PST
November 20 2021 at 2pm-3pmPST
February 2, 2022 11:30am-12:30pmPST
February 2, 2022 1:00pm-2pm PST
March 16, 2022 1pm-2pm PST
May 4, 2022 2:00pm-3:00pm PST
July 20, 2022 9:00am-10:00am PST
August 30, 2023 1:00pm-2:00pm PST
August 13, 2025 9am-10pm PST
Professional Development
Sex Education
June 13-16 2019 AASECT Conference
Facilitating Contention Within Sexuality Education
Opening Plenary - Sexual & Social Liberation (Saah)
Engaging Diversity Plenary (Wilson-Beattie)
Dialogue Panel Presentation (Carver, Alexander, Lehr)
Beyond Yes and No: Embodying Desire for Creative, Collaborative Consent (Daley)
Soloing, Muffing and Prostage Education (Stiritz)
Whipple Plenary (Jawed-Wessel)
Schiller Plenary (Bornstein)
Dialogue Panel Presentation (Stayton)
Awards Luncheon Plenary (Resnick)
Christian Suspicion of Pleasure: A Faith-Informed Response (Dale)
Dialogue Panel Presentation (Hopgood-Jones, Thomas, Walker)
Sex and The Soma (Richmond)
Sexual Self-Advocacy for People with Different Abilities (Weber, Dukes)
June 4-5 2020 AASECT Virtual Summit
Sex, Love, and Intimate Connections in the Midst of the Coronavirus Pandemic: Findings from a U.S. Nationally Representative Probability Survey (Herbenick, Hensel)
Confronting the Crisis: Creating Sexual Liberation Through Social Justice Work (Carter)
Beyond the Bottom Step: Exploring the 2020 National Standards for Sex Education (Driver)
June 8-12, 2021 AASECT Virtual Summit
June 8, 2021 AASECT 2021 Pre-Conference Workshop: Sex Therapy and Counseling Beyond the Binary: Trans Erotic
June 9, 2021 AASECT 2021 Pre-Conference Workshop: What’s Driving the Desire for Kink? Discerning Self-Actualizing from Destructive Motives
June 10-12, 2021 Main Conference
Opening Plenary: Navigating sexual wellness in a digitized landscape: A panel discussion
Kink in Color: Celebrating Black Bodies in Kink Spaces
Sex & Cannabis: A Full Lifecycle Perspective
Trans and Intersex Centric Sex Ed Across the Lifespan
Whipple Family Plenary: Giving teens a voice: Lessons about sex, sexuality, and the internet from research
Social Justice Plenary: Towards collective liberation: A conversation with Dominique Morgan & Eli Green
Coming Into Our Own: The Sexual Life Stories of Post-Menopausal Women
When Pornography is an Issue: Couples in Conflict and People Who Watch Too Much
Exploring Sexual Communication, Pleasure and Freedom for Gender Minorities With Chronic Illness, Pain and other Disabilities
Let the Circle Be Unbroken: Addressing Religious Guilt and Sexual Shame
Affirmative, Pleasure-Based Therapy for Young Adolescents Exploring Gender and Sexuality
Ogden Plenary: Young Sex, Old Sex: The Porn Star and the Little Old Lady Reveal What Therapists Should Know
Adopting a Sex Positive Approach to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer/Questioning (LGBTQ) Sexual Health
Genital Practices Around the World and Implications for Educators, Counselors and Therapists
Schiller Plenary: Pleasure is the measure
June 2-4, 2022 AASECT Conference
Engaging Diversity Plenary: Widen Your Aperture: A Guide to How and Where We
Abortion on Our Own Terms: Fighting Criminalization of Self-managed Abortion
Connecting with Sex Workers: A Strengths-based Liberationist Approach in Educational and Clinical Interventions with Sex Workers
Internalized Homonegativity Among Same Gender Loving Black Men: The Foundations of Truth
Live Poster Q&A Session
WTH is the AASECT Code of Conduct?
Whipple Plenary: LGBTQ+ Adolescent Bullying: Health Outcomes, Policy Influence, and Innovative Solutions
General Plenary: Kissing and Telling: Embodied Eroticism and the Stories Our Bodies Tell
#FACTS About Sex Counseling: Dialogue & Discussion
African-centered Sex Therapy
Gender Freedom: Play, Pleasure, and Possibility Beyond Trans 101
DEI & EBI: Incorporating Anti-racist Strategies into Evidence-based Sex Ed Curricula
Families of Youth Who Sexually Offend: Understanding Their Experiences in the Aftermath of the Sexual Offense
Kink in Clinician: Intersections of Sex Positive Kink for Sex Positive Clinicians Disrupting Compulsory Sexuality: An Asexual Perspective
In Between the Lines: The Art of Erotic Writing
Sex Work, Gen Z, and the Internet: Using Relational Cultural Therapy to Bridge Generational Gaps
Sex, Love and Superheroes: Reviewing Sexuality and Sexual Expression in Pop Culture
Speaking from the Margins - No More! on a Journey to Decolonize Muslim Sexuality
Transition in the Military, the Service Member Perspective
Schiller Plenary: The Path to Professionalism: Who Gets to Be a Sex Educator?
May 15, 2023 AASECT Annual Conference Virtual Fundamentals of Feminine Dominance: What Do You Really Want? D&D, Archetype Cultivation & Practical Tools to Identify Desires - (Midori)
October 20, 2023 AASECT 2023 Virtual Institute From Pleasure to Pain – Understanding Pelvic Floor Health & Vitality
March 15, 2024 AASECT Virtual Institute Cultivate Trans Thriving: Tools for Gender Liberation in Practice
June 12‐15, 2024 AASECT 2024 Annual Conference
Schiller Plenary: Hope in the age of Fear‐Based Politics: The Fight for LGBTQ Rights
Whipple Plenary: Black Male Sexual Victimization
The Rise of Rough Sex: What Sexuality Professionals Need to Know About Today’s Emerging Trends
A Collective Journey: Unlocking Existential Wisdom in Sex Therapy
General Plenary: Intersex Narratives: Navigating Identity, Advocacy, and Sexual Health
The Complex Interplay: Sexual Response & Sexual Functioning within Reproductive Grief and Loss
General Plenary: Embracing the Joys and Challenges of Sexuality in the Second Half of Life
Engaging Diversity Plenary: De Aquí y De Allá...Centering Latinidad in Sex Education, Counseling, y Therapy
Fireside Chat: Transdisciplinary Approaches to Sex Education: Pleasure, Consent, Violence Prevention, and Beyond!
AASECT Ethics: Complaints, Representation, & Consumer Welfare
November 29, 2022 AASECT Ethics as a Dialog: Understanding the AASECT Code of Conduct Streaming Webinar (Synchronous)
January 28-January 30 2022 SEXABA 2022 Conference
September 9-10, 2020 Sex Down South Conference
September 8-10, 2022 Sex Down South Conference
June 2, 2017 Welcoming Black and Native Families to Your Practice Simkin Center Bastyr
July 19, 2021 Ante Up Islam and Sexuality 101 with Bina Bakhtiar, MSW, LSWAA
April 5 & 12, 2022 Ante Up High Impact: Psychedelics and Sexuality with Dee Dee Goldpaugh, LCSW
October 27, 2021 and November 3, 2021 Ante Up Asexuality and Aromanticism with Aubri Lancaster
November 3, 2023 Ante Up Abortion in the US: Realities, Laws, and Healing
August 12-13, 2023 Ante Up Modern Love Intensive with Anne Hodder-Shipp
August 17, 2022 AASECT Book Club SIG Meeting # 6: ADHD After Dark
March, 11, 2022 AASECT Book Club SIG Meeting # 9: The Leather Couch
May 6, 2022 AASECT Book Club SIG Meeting # 10: Rewriting the Rules
March 24, 2023 AASECT Book Club SIG Meeting # 14: So tell me about the last time you had sex
Regular attendance of AASECT Bookclub Main Group (2020-ongoing) and Manga Group (2024-ongoing)
August 20th-21st, 2022 TASHRA Exploring Issues and Clinical implications around BDSM/Kink and Non-Suicidal Self-injury
July 16th- 17th, 2022 TASHRA Double Gifted: Kinky and Neurodiverse
April 22, 2023 TASHRA Kink & Healing: Two Approaches
August 4, 2022 SSSS BDSM/Kink Special Interest Group August 2022 Meeting
Hall Monitors and Ambassadors to Ecstasy: How Dungeon Monitors View Their Role in Semi-Public BDSM Venues - Ashley Haymond, PhD, Med, MPM
Sick Fuck: Navigating Kink and Chronic Illness - Anne Barringer, BA & Yoseñio V. Lewis, BA
Somatic Re-Experiencing of Sexual Trauma - Andrew Pari, LCSW, CCTP
Kink Cultural Competence Scale - Vanessa Brown, PsyD; Lexi Gird, MS; & Courtney Cabell, MA
June 16, 2023 J. Kahn, S. Malina, & D. A. Pitagora Personal and Professional Safety for Trans and Gender Non-Conforming Individuals and Advocates
Graduate School
Spring 2020 Special Topic in Sex: Sex Avoidance
Spring 2020 Sexuality Educator Practicum
Winter 2020 Fundamentals of sexuality education
Winter 2020 Wheel of Consent
Spring 2019 Counseling Gender Spectrum
Spring 2019 Leading Workshops in Sexuality
Spring 2019 Leadership and Reform
Summer 2019 Human Sexuality
Fall 2019 Adult Teaching & Learning Frameworks
Winter 2019 Diversity and Equity
Fall 2018 Human Growth & Dev Across Life
Fall 2018 Curriculum Studies & Ref Practice
SAR
Winter 2019 Antioch University Seattle SAR
Disability
March 23 & 30, 2021 Ante Up Disability Justice co-taught with Sins Invalid
Sensory Processing
October 14-15, 2022 STAR Institute for Sensory Processing STAR Institute Sensory Symposium: Sensory Health and Sensory Informed Care
November 1-4, 2022 STAR Institute for Sensory Processing Star Foundations of Development Course: Sensory Processing, Regulation, and Relationship
September 13, 2023 STAR Institute Short Course: Regulation 101
Neurodiversity
June 11-13, 2025 STAR Institute 2025 Virtual Summit: Neurodiversity Affirming Practice
Autism
September 21 & 22, 2015 Liddle Kidz Foundation Touch Therapy for Liddle Kidz with autism (ASD) 16 CE Hours
May 31, 2018 Blue Tower Solutions Let’s Get Real! Talking About Trauma and Sexuality in the Lives of People with Disabilities
Fall 2018 Antioch Seattle Human Growth & Dev Across Life
June 8-10, 2022 STAR Institute for Sensory Processing Virtual Summit: Sensory Health in Autism
June 14-16, 2023 STAR Institute for Sensory Processing Virtual Summit: Sensory Health in Autism
June 12-14, 2024 STAR Institute 2024 Virtual Summit: Sensory Health and Autism
March 23 & 30, 2021 Ante Up Disability Justice co-taught with Sins Invalid
July 16th- 17th, 2022 TASHRA Double Gifted: Kinky and Neurodiverse
September/October 2022 KMR Training Inside of Autism
January 26, 2024 The Chicago School of Professional Psychology Autism and Gender Variance: Clinical Considerations
2022- Ongoing Inside of Autism Membership
June 3-June 5, 2025 Yellow Ladybug Confrence
Standpoint epistemology
Standpoint epistemology claims that authority over knowledge is created through direct experience of a condition or situation (Kapp, 2020, p. V).
A lot of what is written about autistics is by allistics (non-autistics). Lived experience matters and can be useful in designing research and support.
“Tenured scholars are not the only people who produce knowledge or who deserve credit for their expertise” (Chen, 2020, p. 18).
Kapp, S. K. (2020). Autistic community and the neurodiversity movement: stories from the frontline. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan.
Chen, A. (2020). Ace: What asexuality reveals about desire, society, and the meaning of sex. Beacon Press.
Botha, M. (2021). Academic, activist, or advocate? Angry, Entangled, and Emerging: A Critical Reflection on Autism Knowledge Production. Frontiers in Psychology, 12. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.727542
Nervous System
October 2020 and January 2021 The Embody Lab Applied Polyvagal Theory in Therapeutic Yoga Levels 1 & 2 courses with Dr. Arielle Schwartz
Fall 2021 Renew Massage CEU Ethics, Communication and Boundaries Through The Lens of the Nervous System
Fall 2023 Renew Massage CEU Embodied Ethics, Communication and Boundaries: Hard Conversations, DifficultEmotions and the Nervous System
Fall 2023 The Master Series Trauma & Mental Health Conference Oxford 2023
Massage Therapy
August 5 -August 8, 2015 Simkin Center for Allied Birth Vocations (Bastyr University) Pre- and Perinatal Massage Therapy Certification Course
February 24-25, 2017 Simkin Center for Allied Birth Vocations (Bastyr University) When Survivors Give Birth: Understanding and Healing the Effects of Early Sexual Abuse on Childbearing Women
July 17 & 18, 2015 Liddle Kidz Foundation Certified Pediatric Massage Therapist
September 21 & 22, 2015 Liddle Kidz Foundation Touch Therapy for Liddle Kidz with Autism (ASD)
September 19 & 20, 2015 Liddle Kidz Foundation Touch Therapy for Liddle Kidz with Trauma
July 31 – August 3, 2015 International Association of Infant Massage (Bastyr University) Infant Massage Educator Training
January 8-10, 2016 Crafted Touch, Inc. Pediatric Fascial Balancing for Newborns.
November 6, 7, & 8, 2017 Liddle Kidz Foundation Certified Infant Massage Teacher (CIMT) course 24 CE Hour
July 19-21 2018 Crafted Touch, Inc. Craniosacral for Infants
October 25, 2017 Pacific Northwest School of Massage Muscle-Specific Deep Tissue Techniques for the Iliopsoas, Diaphragm, and QL 4.5 hours
April 8, 2018 Pacific Northwest School of Massage Ethics, A Massage Therapist’s Guide to Understanding Illegitimate Massage and Human Trafficking
February 23 2019 Pacific Northwest School of Massage Somatic Nervous System and Proprioception
March 30, 2019 Pacific Northwest School of Massage Self-Care and Deep Tissue Techniques for the Hands, Wrists & Forearms
June 7-8, 2022 IAIM Virtual Conference
July 15th – 17th, 2022 Franklin Method® Fascia Trainer for the Face, Neck & Shoulders
October 26-27 & November 2-3, 2022 STAR Institute for Sensory Processing A Holistic and Integrative Approach to Pediatric Pelvic Health
June 7-8, 2023 IAIM Virtual Conference
September 30, 2023 Crafted Touch Kid’s Clinic
October 5, 2023 Crafted Touch Tutorial (3 Hours)
September 29, 2023 Renew Massage CEU Embodied Ethics, Communication and Boundaries: Hard Conversations, Difficult Emotions and the Nervous System
AMTA Virtual Courses
Massage Ramifications of the Anatomy and Physiology of the Spinal Cord
Helping Clients Manage Migraines
Self-Care for Massage Therapists: Body Mechanics
Research and Massage Therapy
IMTRC: Addressing the Opioid Epidemic with Massage Therapy
Dealing with Ethical Gray Areas in Massage Therapy
Ethics and the Power Differential
Introduction to Pediatric Oncology Massage
Headaches: Relief with Massage Therapy
TMJ: Relief with Massage Therapy
Massage and Medications- When is Therapy Dangerous?
Conferences
November 18, 2023 Pediatric Pelvic Health Summit Hosted by Dawn Sandlacidi, PT, RCMT, BCB-PMD & Quiara Smith, OTD, MOT, OTR/L, CEIM
November 9, 2024 Pediatric Pelvic Health Summit Hosted by Dawn Sandlacidi, PT, RCMT, BCB-PMD & Quiara Smith, OTD, MOT, OTR/L, CEIM